cloud free night views of USA and of Earth via NASA satellite -- much change since I went to college in 1960...: Rich Murray 2012.12.05

[Rich Murray-2]

cloud free night views of USA and of Earth via NASA satellite -- much
change since I went to college in 1960...: Rich Murray 2012.12.05

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC (Phys.org) -- Scientists
unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.
A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images
from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena
across the planet in greater detail than ever before.

This image of the continental United States at night is a composite
assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and
October 2012.
The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light
in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses
filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas
flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight.

Read more at:
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-satellite-reveals-views-earth-night.html#jCp

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-satellite-reveals-views-earth-night.html#nwlt

http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2012/nasanoaasate.jpg
USA

http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2012/satelliterev.jpg
World

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[Parks, Raymond]

I have several of these in photo form from my days maintaining the ground system of the DMSP satellites.  The customers for the data (Air Force Global Weather Central - that's changed to I know not what) would stitch together images from the primary sensor, the Optical LIne Scanner in either fine or coarse visible light bands.  The most fascinating picture I received from those days is a daylight picture of North America during an unusual Arctic express.  The land mass is perfectly clear but every coastal area has a cloud bank starting at the water's edge that looks like it's exploding out over the ocean.

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On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Rich Murray wrote:

cloud free night views of USA and of Earth via NASA satellite -- much
change since I went to college in 1960...: Rich Murray 2012.12.05

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC (Phys.org) -- Scientists
unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.
A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images
from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena
across the planet in greater detail than ever before.

This image of the continental United States at night is a composite
assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and
October 2012.
The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light
in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses
filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas
flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight.

Read more at:
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-satellite-reveals-views-earth-night.html#jCp

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-satellite-reveals-views-earth-night.html#nwlt

http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2012/nasanoaasate.jpg
USA

http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2012/satelliterev.jpg
World

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